Intelligence
The general definition of intelligence is the ability of acquiring and applying new knowledge and skills. According to Charles Darwin, intelligence is the ability to adapt to a new environment and survive. Psychology tells us that there are many types of intelligence, 8 or 9, and that logical-mathematical intelligence is the one preferred by our industrialised world filled with technology and consumerism.
Intelligence is actually a compound of many things. It is a polyhedral quality that human beings, or better still all living beings have. It includes courage, good will and most of all the ability to solve problems. Intelligence is the capacity of a human being of solving general problems or well known problems in an unconventional way and by using tools, skills and experiences that haven’t been explored yet. This then falls into science when the solution to the problem needs to be replicated.
Intelligence within a business must be used to be able to find unconventional solutions to the problems and requests that come from the market. Resolving problems for clients can bring to a higher level of growth, but intelligence needs support to put in practice conceptual things and ideas. When intelligence is not supported, all the solutions remain theoretical, and, when the solution is not brought to life, it doesn’t actually exist. Leonardo Da Vinci invented and conceptualised the airplane centuries before the Wrights actually realised it, so, until then, the aeroplane was just a fantasy and an idea until it saw its real life application.
This means that it does not really matter how a problem is solved as long as it gets solved. Not all problems can be solved mathematically or with engineering as much as many problems need creativity to be resolved. Problems can be physically resolved or musically and artistically resolved. It does not matter how you solve a problem as long as you solve it, and it does not have to be conventional. Our modern and industrialised society tells us that problems can be resolved with technology only and thanks to STEMs disciplines, but this is completely false. Problems need creativity, beauty, art and empathy to be resolved.
Problems’ visualisation and their consequent resolution have many ways of coming to life and one cannot follow the convention just because it is dictated by society. The best inventions and the greatest solutions to world problems have come up against the general society’s belief. Christopher Columbus discovered America when the whole world thought it was impossible to reach India by navigating the ocean bypassing thee circumnavigation of Africa. More importantly, the whole world completely ignored the existence of a new continent and still it was discovered. Turing invented the first computational machine when there was a need, the war was putting his nation in danger and many lives were at stake. Yet, the whole world thought it was impossible for a machine to decrypt a message, while we regularly use encryption today whenever we send a message online.
If something is not conventional that doesn’t mean it can’t be the solution to the problem you have been studying.
